History has taught us if we will learn

September 11, 2001 was an especially painful day in American history, but from it we can salvage some important lessons, says Ralph Nader in USA Today. Among them, we should never permit Congress to shift its powers to the presidency, he says.

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The author has done a fine job, but has missed the fact that ignoring a conflict can be fatal. As a society we all have known that the country has a problem with the people in the Middle East, and we did not use this knowledge to formulate a tension reduction policy. The lesson that we should draw from this experience is that ignoring reality can be very expensive.